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TIL about Arthur John Priest. A fireman and stoker who survived five ship sinkings including the RMS Titanic sinking.

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XEJyE TIL that FDR likely did not have polio as is commonly believed. A retrospective analysis conducted in 2003 claimed that there was a 99% chance FDR had Guillain-Barré syndrome instead, which has similar symptoms but was unknown in America at the time.
RAya TIL that the word “chortle,” meaning “to laugh in a breathy, gleeful way,” was a nonsense word in Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
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